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To: JohnM who wrote (10419)	1/30/2006 10:04:17 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541381

In order to reach that far outside the envelope, Tim, you have to conclude government itself is a socialist system. As I said its not out of the envelope. And you don't have to conclude anything that you don't have to conclude to assert that a government owned steel industry or a government owned shoe shine shop would be socialist. Since socialism and capitalism are names of different economic systems And mixed systems have aspects of both. Are system is really mixed not capitalist, although it leans more to capitalist than many others. No system is ever totally capitalist, and probably no system has been totally socialist (even if the only capitalism is on the black market). Systems get called capitalist or socialist depending on opinions of how much they lean one way or other. The fact that our system leans capitalist doesn't mean that it has no socialist aspects. One of the socialist aspects of our system is that the government owns the bulk of the education industry, just as some more socialist governments owned the bulk of the steel industry. Tim